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source: Luwaran.com
In a show of fraternal concerns and selfless agenda, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) has urged the Arroyo administration to release MNLF Chairman Nur Misuari immediately and without preconditions. Khaled Musa, deputy chairman for the MILF Committee on Information, told Luwaran that Misuari deserved freedom more than erstwhile President Joseph Estrada, who was granted absolute pardon by President Arroyo last year.
Estrada was impeached by the Senate in 2001 for corruption charges and abuse of power.
Misuari has been in detention for almost six years now after leading a failed mutiny in Jolo, Sulu in November 2001 in protest of the government’s non-compliance with certain provisions of the GRP-MNLF Final Agreement of 1996.
Earlier, Misuari’s detained spiritual adviser, Ustadz Abuharris Usman, was reunited with his family in Patikul, Sulu after being allowed by Judge Winlove Dumayas of the Makati Regional Trial Court Branch 59 to post a P100,000 bail. Six other followers were also released on bails, who were named as Johan Sansibar, Haron Bakil, Ismael “Maeng” Uddin, Kamar Abdurajak, Omar Abdullah and Abdu Akil.
Musa also asked the government to work closely and immediately with the MNLF to assess and implement all those unimplemented parts of the 1996 peace pact.
In a related development, one MILF military commander, who was with Misuari in the early days of the MNLF in 1972, told Luwaran on condition of anonymity that it is time for Misuari to realize his blunders as far as the genuine solution to the Bangsamoro Problem is concerned.
He said Misuari must admit that instead of solving this problem, he created more problems for the Moros by signing an agreement that integrated them into the Filipino body politic.
He also criticized Misuari for agreeing to abandon the right of the Bangsamoro People’s to self-determination, as stipulated in the Preamble of the 1996 peace agreement.
He said Misuari has already lost his moral authority to lead the Bangsamoro people, citing several reasons: 1) He served the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) as governor and after “enjoying” criticized it as contravening the 1996 peace pact; 2) He ran for the governor of Sulu twice and lost twice; 3) The more he asserts the implementation of the peace pact, the closer he pushes himself and the MNLF into integration with the government; and 4) He has proved that he cannot lead the people whether in war or in peace.
During the height of the MNLF-GRP war, he was always overseas, unlike the late MILF Chairman Salamat Hashim who died fighting the government.
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